GitHub

“It was number one on GitHub for a couple weeks.”

“One of my candidates for an industry entering the end of ownership or that may eventually is education in the sense that, you know, you have a huge upfront commitment of K through 12 and then four years of college and then maybe grad school and so on. And you …”

“There's a, we have a GitHub repository internally called GitHub Sales, and the salespeople do talk a lot in issues there, but it's the same exact place where engineers are talking. It's the same exact place where really everyone in the company is talking. So w…”

“For a while, I think not having a sales team is the right decision for GitHub, and now I believe that having a sales team is the right decision. So, I, a couple years ago, I would have said GitHub is a company that doesn't need sales, and we did say that. Now,…”

“We initially built GitHub just for ourselves and people who are like us, and so that's where we found a lot of the product market fit, was that the product sort of marketed itself.”

“We're talking about thirty-five million projects right now, and eleven million users.”

“That is actually true even in the world's most largest proprietary software company.”

“It's really looking at a programmer's public work now that's relevant. And so just like you wouldn't hire a designer without looking at a portfolio that they brought, brought you when you're hiring a programmer today, you're likely to look at the, Open source …”

“The communication part is the hardest part and the most important part, and the technical part, you have unlimited amount of time to figure out later, and so we're really focused on the communication part”

“GitHub is actually gonna get less interesting in the future, and it's gonna be less about, I can grab an open source project and run it, and more about where do I run it? What are the systems it integrates into? And so, GitHub is really awesome, I think, for m…”

“And it's not about hacking or stealing information or trying to get passwords from us. It's about suppressing Speech.”

“Only 30% of GitHub's traffic comes from North America”

“When in the early days when countries like Germany put their entire code, their laws in GitHub, and people, everyone essentially became an open source contributor.”

“And one of the things that GitHub has done is completely removed all of that cultural acclimation.”

“The negative thing that I always hear is that, like, GitHub is just a bunch of people dicking around with their own thing, and they don't care about contributing to projects that are established, right? Which is, like, actually not true.”

“GitHub is a general kind of collaborative platform, and they are essentially the identity manager for collaboration online, particularly code collaboration. They've won that battle.”

“So I think that one of the things that GitHub solved was they made it very low cost to have a lot of smaller projects, and so what you're seeing is that basically large projects, large applications are assembled out of many, many tiny components.”

“Well, the element, I believe, that has brought open source from fringe hobby project out of academia to mainstream is the fact that you can actually build commercial businesses On top of open source. Right. And a lot of that, which you guys at Databricks are d…”

“The most interesting thing I saw this past week is this stat that Microsoft now has more commits to GitHub than any other company. And can you just think about that for a moment? Like Microsoft on GitHub.”

“We think there are twenty million people employed that are writing code, but the idea of what a programmer is, someone who writes software in their free time, or even professionally, that's not counted in a programmer, it's way more than twenty million, it's w…”

“We first decided to raise investment in 2012 after we were around four years old because we wanted to branch out from our own personal networks of Software developers, from programmers, we wanted to get into the world of business, we wanted to really expand Gi…”

“We also see our customers, people that used to use Jira, people that are in the marketing team that want to update just some copy on a website, they're increasingly moving to something like GitHub, and they're also giving us feature requests specifically for t…”

“My hope is that we're gonna get there in the next, you know, let's say, 10 or 20 years. My hope is that we're gonna get telepresence, right, in the form of video conferencing, and telepresence robots, and VR, and AR, and all these things, collaboration softwar…”

“This one probably got the most criticism, particularly from other VCs when we made it. It was, they way overpaid, you know, businesses like that will never be worth a, rational was, went for the most money ever in that space, and they'll never make their money…”

“Does it still make sense to build a direct sales force? As in, will it increase the unit economics if you do? I think our experience here with Slack and with GitHub and with many companies is, It's definitely yes, right? Yeah, the answer is yes. Because that's…”

“There's one company that I heard of that checked their credentials for AWS into their GitHub repo on accident, mistake that people make. Within a couple of hours, they had run up about 500,000 dollars of AWS compute charges as people tried to mine Bitcoin.”

“The piece about, ah, like secrets in code was some interesting research we did. Basically, we just went out and asked all the LLMs, write me an integration with GitHub, write me an integration with Stripe, and the vast majority of them hard coded the API key d…”

“Most of the training data it's training on is insecure, right? You've got a huge, huge corpus of insecure data on GitHub and a small minority of it was written securely.”

“For the most part, if you ask it to integrate with GitHub, it saw a plethora of different GitHub's keys and it's training data and it didn't regurgitate a specific one. It either regurgitate an example or like a put your thing in here, right?”

“One of these really exciting use cases of AI is like automating a lot of, you know, these processes that you have to go through as a founder. Like, I recently started using, like, Claude with, like, linear, and Notion, and GitHub integration as, like, a micro …”

“So now it's, I think, number one GitHub stars of all time. It passed React, it passed Linux.”

“We disregarded it basically immediately because we assumed that, you know, eventually everything that is just digital and AI will be able to do as well. Yeah, exactly. So an AI will be able to have a GitHub account and we'll be able to post Test and owner acco…”